In Search of Lost Books - Couverture souple

Straten, Giorgio Van

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782273743 ISBN 13 : 9781782273745

Editeur : Pushkin Press, 2018

Synopsis

They exist as a rumour or a fading memory. They vanished from history leaving scarcely a trace, lost to fire, censorship, theft, war or deliberate destruction, yet those who seek them are convinced they will find them. This is the story of one man's quest for eight mysterious lost books. Taking us from Florence to Regency London, the Russian Steppe to British Columbia, Giorgio van Straten unearths stories of infamy and tragedy, glimmers of hope and bitter twists of fate. There are, among others, the rediscovered masterpiece that he read but failed to save from destruction; the Hemingway novel that vanished in a suitcase at the Gare du Lyon; the memoirs of Lord Byron, burnt to avoid a scandal; the Magnum Opus of Bruno Schulz, disappeared along with its author in wartime Poland; the mythical Sylvia Plath novel that may one day become reality. As gripping as a detective novel, as moving as an elegy, this is the tale of a love affair with the impossible, of the things that slip away from us but which, sometimes, live again in the stories we tell.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Giorgio van Straten is director of the Italian Cultural Institute of New York and one of the editors of the literature review Nuovi Argomenti. He is the author of several novels, including the prize-winning A Living Memory, along with two collections of short stories. He has translated the works of authors such as Kipling, London and Stevenson and has edited several works of non-fiction.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pushkin Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1782273743
• ISBN 13: 9781782273745
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
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• Personne responsable: non disponible